Another Brilliant Column by Michael Kinsely:Corruption as Usual

Business As Usual: Corrupt
By Michael Kinsley
Friday, December 2, 2005; Page A23

It used to be said that the moral arc of a Washington career could be divided into four parts: idealism, pragmatism, ambition and corruption. You arrive with a passion for a cause, determined to challenge the system. Then you learn to work for your cause within the system. Then rising in the system becomes your cause. Then, finally, you exploit the system -- your connections in it, and your understanding of it -- for personal profit.


By the 20th anniversary of their arrival, when an intellectually corrupt Supreme Court ruling gave them complete control of the government at last, the conservatives had lost any stomach for tearing it down. George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism" was more like an apology than an ideology. Meanwhile, Tom DeLay -- the real boss in Congress -- openly warned K Street that unless all the choice lobbying jobs went to Republicans, lobbyists could not expect to have any influence with the Republican Congress. This warning would be meaningless, of course, unless the opposite was also true: If you hire Republican lobbyists, you and they will have influence over Congress. And darned if DeLay didn't turn out to be exactly right about this.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/01/AR2005120101173.html

a planned overthrow of the US government aint 'routine corruption' ...and bush has literally waged war against the liberal democracy once known as the USA, aided and abetted by the pigmedia....kinsley is a lil ole conspiracy theorist, suggesting a certain amount of nudge wink covers what the gopigs have done, but there are 2100 dead servicemen/women, and legally their estates have the US taxpayer by the balls ....too bad kinsley pretends he never noticed the 2k power grab, and the criminality that the power grab has necessitated (otherwise, the rats will rat the gopig out, though the pigmedia iggy anything that doesn't lovely the bush's blush)